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According to a BBC report from February 22, the British Parliament's Treasury Committee will start investigating cryptocurrencies and their impact on the British investors and the company. The investigation is caused by the growing global interest in cryptocurrencies, as well as the recent rise and fall of the crypto market from the new year.

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On Tuesday, February 20, the Financial Times reported that the Venezuelan government began pre-selling the world's first Petro-based Petr Criminal Investigation (PTR) based on oil. 82.4 million Petro is already on sale, both for cash and cryptocurrency, although it remains unavailable for Venezuelan Bolivar.

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On Monday, February 19, the UK newspaper The Telegraph gave the statement of the Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, in which he stated that according to traditional definitions Bitcoin cannot be considered a legal currency.

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Cryptocurrency fraud has generated over 1,200 complaints to the Australian consumer law monitoring authority in 2017. Data from the Australian Commission on Competition and Consumers (ACCC) disclose 1289 complaints, some of which seem to refer to ICO. Australia has not responded to the recent requests from international regulators to closely follow the sale of cryptocurrency tokens and related activities.

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While many European countries are looking for stricter rules on cryptocurrencies, Spain wants to follow Switzerland, proposing a friendly legacy for the cryptocurrency market. The People's Party of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is ready to take full advantage of Blockchain technology.

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The head of the International Monetary Foundation (IMF), Christine Lagarde, said that the regulation of cryptocurrencies was inevitable and necessary at the international level. Asked during the interview about whether the growing popularity of cryptocurrency markets was caused by the hunger for high profits in global markets, Lagarde replied that that trend showed the mentality of those who were looking for high-performance products, as well as an element of speculation.

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The seven largest cryptocurrency companies in the world joined forces to create CryptoUK, the first of its kind, a trade association whose aim is self-regulation in the British digital currency industry. CryptoUK consists of global trading platforms and cryptocurrency services: Coinbase, eToro, CryptoCompare, CEX.IO, BlockEx, CoinShares and CommerceBlock.